August 2009

World food scenario: Emerging trends and issues

  Global food scenario has been under heavy odds. This has been due to spiraling food prices and scarcity of food grains world over. The result is that the specter of a hungry world that stood at 800 million, roiled into unrest and political upheavals. One of the contributory factors is more population and lesser output of food grains. It is also assumed that that the Asian Economies and the US have also...

Author(s): Badar Alam Iqbal and Theo Van Der Merwe

August 2009

International remittances and well-being in Sub-saharan Africa

  This paper examines the impact of international remittances on well-being in sub-Saharan Africa, using a set of cross-country data drawn from 38 countries and a multiple regression analysis. The result obtained from the analysis indicates that international remittances have to some extent contributed to the improvement of well-being in sub-Saharan Africa. However, for international remittances to continue to...

Author(s): Michael A. Ajayi, Mukaila A. Ijaiya, Gafar T. Ijaiya, Raji A. Bello, Mufthau A. Ijaiya and Sidikat L. Adeyemi

August 2009

Entrepreneurship orientation among Indian professional students

  Entrepreneurship is a life moving force behind any economy. It is an accepted belief without entrepreneurial activities the process of industrialization and development is not possible. It includes the promotion for capital formation, creation of immediate large scale employment, promotion of balanced regional development, effective mobilization of capital and skill. Professional students getting education in...

Author(s): Rajesh Kumar Shastri, Surendra Kumar and Murad Ali